Shelfmark
Kaa.2.30 (copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Kaa.2.31 (copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Kaa.2.32 (copy 3)
Title
Edy : recollections of Ellen Gordon Craig / edited by Eleanor Adlard ; biographical note by Christopher St. John.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Frederick Muller Ltd., 1949.
Physical description
156 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Note
Publisher's blue cloth boards with spine title stamped in gilt; with dust-jacket.
Formatted contents note
To Edy from an old neighbour / E.P. Smith -- Close-up / Christopher St. John -- Edy playing / Edward Gordon Craig -- Triumphant women / Cicely Hamilton -- Bygones / Harcourt Williams -- Edy the magician / Dame May Whitty ; postscript Margaret Webster -- Edith Craig / Saint Georges de Bouhélier -- A thread of memory / Allan Wade -- The festival in the Barn Theatre, 1947 / Dame Sybil Thorndike -- Heart and hand / Ernest Milton -- An American rehearses with Edy / Florence Locke -- "The squares" / Irene Cooper Willis -- A great treat / Violet Pym -- Triptych / V. Sackville-West -- More distant view / Sheila Kaye-Smith -- Edy's ways / Clare Atwood -- Laurels and rosemary / Eleanor Adlard.
Provenance
[Copy 1] Edward [Teddy] Craig's copy [Edy's brother] with his annotation on front flyleaf regarding a contribution not included in the book, and on p. 11 regarding Edy's last words, and infrequent marginalia; also a loosely inserted photograph of Edy and Teddy, possibly at Smallhythe, and a postcard of the painting of Edy by Clare Atwood reproduced in the book.
Provenance
[Copy 2] With ms. title "Edy" on round paper label on spine, probably in Edward Craig's hand; loosely inserted photograph of Ellen Terry reading a book with ms. note on verso "at 215 Kings Rd Chelsea in the studio"; loosely inserted extracts from Donald Sinden's "Theatrical memories" (pp. 77-84 and 233-240; booklabel of Gaby Goldscheider Antiquarian Books.
Binding
[Copy 2] Lacking dust-jacket.
Binding
[Copy 3] Lacking dust-jacket.
Subject
Subject
Theatrical producers and directors Great Britain Biography.
Subject
Women theatrical producers and directors Great Britain Biography.
Added entry--name
Craig, Edward Anthony, 1904 - 1998 former owner.
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Frederick Muller Ltd. publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B48526